Ivon Hitchens

London: Lund Humphries, 1973.

First Edition. Large hardback in the near fine dust-jacket, just a little chipping at ends of spine. Dark cream publisher's cloth with titles in white lettering to spine. Binding square, with no old inscriptions or other interior markings. 120 colour plates and 82 black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the artist. With an introductory essay by T. G. Rosenthal. The best reference work on the English artist Ivon Hitchens, it includes an introductory essay by T.G.Rosenthal, as well as a list of exhibitions, bibliography and chronology. Hitchen became associated with the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. Following the bombing of his house in the second world war he moved with his family to the Sussex countryside, where he acquired a small area of woodland on Lavington Common, near Petworth, and lived there in a caravan, which he gradually augmented with a series of buildings. It was here that he further developed his fascination with woodland which continued until the his death in 1979